Who Needs The Doctor?

Good Morning,

Luke 5:27-32 (NIV)
The Calling of Levi (Matthew)
After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

In reading these familiar verses this morning the thought that came to me was that I wondered just how many of us...Christians, or those who call themselves such...are really sort of like the Pharisees and the "teachers of the law" who were questioning the disciples about who they chose to eat with. What I mean is, it occurred to me that many of us feel that we're somewhat better than others and seem to have lost that daily need for a Savior in our lives. We might wonder about some people because of who they "hang" with. And, we might question some as to what they do with their time.

But you see the thing of it is, we are ALL sinners in need of God's love and His help with repenting of the sin in our lives. Especially that daily sin we're strapped with but may not even realize we're involved in. (That might take some thought for some of us, but it's worth the time!)

Jesus came to so as to be our "doctor" because we're all ill...in one way or another. There are none of us who are righteous in our own right and that means that we need Jesus every day; every hour; every moment.

Yes, we have been saved by the grace of God and because He loves us...every one of us...even despite our faults and failures. However, we ought never to get so complacent in the fact of our salvation that we lose sight of the fact that we are STILL among the ill who need a doctor. When we do that, well then, we become Pharisees every bit as much as those of 2,000 years ago.

When Jesus said, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance," it seems evident to me that He came for every human being who ever lived.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that we need God...and we need Him all the time.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David